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  1. If the target is third and you are third, I'm not sure it's time to talk about changing the manager.

    Also (and I know this is controversial) I'm not sure that failing to achieve a target is necessarily a sacking offence. I think, particularly where an employee is new to a role, continuity and opportunity for learning and correcting mistakes has value.

    We need to see improvement from the last 2 games, that kind of form can't continue indefinitely. But there's not a great deal of jeopardy in our position right now. Almost certainly we'll be in the Championship again next season. Doolan should be given a chance to get things right.

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  2. 4 minutes ago, Norgethistle said:

    Last October into November 
    18 goals in 5 games
    4 at Aberdeen 
    4 against Queens Park
    4 at Ayr
    3 at Raith
    3 at Dundee

    Then 2 at Morton 

    It still doesn’t make last 4 games any better conceding 13 goals

     

    Might be worth considering that it's mostly the same defence

  3. Ian McCall was a good manager for us, on both occasions, in my opionion. In 40 years of watching Jags we have often crashed from one bad manager to another, from one crisis to another, always heading in the wrong direction. Derek Johnstone, Billy Lamont, Sandy Clark, Murdo MacLeod, Tommy Bryce, John McVeigh, Gerry Collins, Gerry Britton and Derek Whyte,  Dick Campell, Gary Caldwell.

    John Lambie reversed the trend twice and is obviously a club legend. I would argue that Ian McCall is the one other person in that time who reversed the trend. Again, twice.

    He never completed the job like Lambie did, and is unsurprisingly (correctly) not held in the same esteem. But he stabilised the results and definitely set the foundations for the subsequent success of McMamara and Archie. And now we're moaning about sitting third in the table and arguing about whether Doolan has improved the team, just a few years after McCall took us on while desperately trying to stay in this league.

    It's all nuance though. If you're going to argue about whether someone is great or crap you're never going to come to a decent conclusion.

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  4. What a signing Brian Graham has been. 71 goals. Only three of these were before Covid lock-down; the rate is hugely impressive. And leading the women's team to consecutive top six finishes and a cup final.

    I've been watching Thistle for forty years and only Kris Doolan has scored more goals for Thistle in all that time.

    I'm not sure that we appreciate him as much as we should.

  5. 1 minute ago, a f kincaid said:

    Wouldn't disagree with any of that. The worry is surely that this was against a team that is demonstrably the worst in the Premiership by a mile and only 3 positions ahead of us in the mythical 42-club league. They've won twice in 25 matches, shipping 42 goals in that time. We are often told there's nothing much between the lower part of the premiership and the upper part of the Championship and "league expansion" gets an airing. Are they that much worse than the other 11? There must be some reason they are so easy to beat but Thistle never really looked like finding it.

    I think we can compete with them quite easily. The problem is that we can be a very shaky team when it comes to protecting a lead, and regardless of league form etc they were the team with all the confidence and momentum after they scored a goal.

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